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00:01:22.000Yeah, we have a lot to be thankful for this year.
00:01:26.000In spite of the tragedy, in spite of the loss, and I think, Blake, you said it best, even especially in the midst of what's been a really rough season, we have to practice the discipline of being thankful, being grateful for the mercies of God, the blessings of God Almighty.
00:01:44.000We are going to spend probably the second half of this hour doing that.
00:01:48.000First, we've got a couple breaking news stories that we want to get to.
00:01:51.000First, big breaking news story this morning.
00:01:54.000Blake Neff, the state of Georgia, is basically refusing or declining to pursue its case, the Fannie Willis case, against Donald J. Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and many others.
00:02:10.000This is a fitting end, but kind of a whimper in what was a main huge story of 2024.
00:02:17.000Yeah, I wanted us to start with this because I think it actually perfectly encapsulates the life arc of a lot of things we've lived through in the Trump era.
00:02:26.000There's how many times have the walls been closing in about 50,000 different times?
00:02:30.000There was a meme video of the walls are closing in, how often they said it, in I think 2016 or early 2017.
00:02:37.000And it's just been the same way ever since.
00:02:40.000So when Trump was out of office, they waited a few years.
00:02:45.000And then suddenly, 2023, they thought, let's roll out all of these indictments of Trump, Manhattan in Georgia, and then the two federal cases.
00:02:54.000Eugene Carroll, the business case, of course, yeah, the business case, the Carol Jordan case.
00:03:00.000And a lot of them, they'll superficially look formidable.
00:03:04.000He's got four different criminal indictments and all these civil cases.
00:03:08.000And what has always stood out to me is how every single one of them has some insane flaw, either unprecedented use of the law, of law and law faith.
00:03:21.000I remember, remember, this case, the Fulton County case, it included in the indictment that as part of his conspiracy to do various bad things, that Trump encouraged people to turn on OAN to watch, I believe, the Georgia legislature hold a hearing.
00:03:40.000I believe another part of his conspiracy was encouraging, was that he called lawmakers, I believe.
00:03:48.000He called lawmakers and urged them to vote a certain way on legislation, which I will observe is part of the First Amendment, your right to petition lawmakers for redress of grievances.
00:03:58.000I believe that extends to the president.
00:05:20.000Where they said it was an illegal campaign contribution to allegedly play Hush Money.
00:05:25.000And then also that it was a felony because he was covering up a federal crime that the federal government had never charged him with, had in fact investigated and declined to charge him for.
00:05:36.000And then they tell the jury, you can just pick whatever crime you feel like might have been covered up.
00:05:40.000You don't even need to unanimously agree on a crime.
00:05:44.000Well, all of these things are like that.
00:05:45.000And so we wanted to open that because today is Thanksgiving.
00:05:58.000So, but all this, you know, this is what gets me: there's another round of this that seems to be about to pop off.
00:06:05.000And now Bloomberg has somehow gotten its hands on a leak between a Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, special envoy appointed by President Trump to handle Ukraine-Russia issues.
00:06:17.000He's been traveling all over the world working on peace negotiations and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy advisor.
00:06:26.000So this is a new story breaking today, Blake, where it seems to be a story where I instantly want to ask Cui Bono, who benefits, right?
00:06:38.000Because if you let's go through the paces here.
00:06:40.000So there was a 28-point peace plan that was leaked, right?
00:06:45.000And by the way, Jack Posobiec actually predicted that there was going to be a leaked phone call yesterday, which is pretty remarkable because it came out today, or it came out last night.
00:06:54.000And there was a 28-point peace plan, which was widely derided by the foreign policy establishment as too pro-Kremlin.
00:07:00.000So then we get the EU coming in, and we get a follow-up peace plan, which is much more, let's say, pro-Ukrainian.
00:07:09.000There was basically, you had made the point earlier this week, Blake, that the 28-point peace plan was somewhat remarkable in the sense that it actually included a provision where the U.S. would identify portions of formerly Ukrainian land as now Russian land and territory.
00:07:31.000So this one, the new peace plan does not necessarily have that.
00:07:35.000It has a doesn't have a cap on the size of the Ukrainian military.
00:07:40.000There's other things that you obviously interpret as more pro-Ukrainian, pro-Europe, right?
00:07:45.000There's basically a NATO Article 5 type security guarantee involved in the new plan.
00:07:50.000So it's much, much more pro-Ukrainian.
00:07:52.000I think the 28-point plan is much more pragmatic and probably realistic where this is going to finally end out in the end.
00:08:00.000But now we have a leak, and you have to ask: why would somebody leak this phone call between Witkoff and Ushakov?
00:08:09.000So the call is essentially, I think, a nothing burger, but it's being made much of in the press because it appears to them and the way they're painting it is that Witkoff is playing ball with the Russians, coaching the Russians on how to sell this peace plan to Trump, right?
00:08:27.000Trump, you're the peace president, you know, kind of glazing President Trump, giving his ego a boost.
00:08:35.000And I think that this is completely par for the course.
00:08:38.000This is standard operating procedure, standard negotiation tactics.
00:09:20.000Trump is a guy who is he likes Witcoff because Witkoff negotiates the way I think Trump likes to make deals.
00:09:28.000And I think of how you might make deals in the business world.
00:09:32.000It probably would be normal to tell someone, hey, before you talk to this guy, here's how you're going to make sure this conversation goes well.
00:09:38.000That is a normal conversation that you will have if you are in a business world of negotiation.
00:09:46.000And I think it's, if Trump says he likes it, that probably makes sense.
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00:11:47.000And it just strikes me that the foreign policy establishment is more outraged a possible peace deal than they are that our intelligence is getting leaked to Bloomberg.
00:12:01.000It's an AI-generated version, but I think it does a good job of giving you the brief of what this leak call entails.
00:14:31.000That was just, that's such a bizarre episode in hindsight, that entire whistleblower saga where there was someone who was just making allegations against the president that were ridiculous.
00:14:42.000And then people, hundreds, thousands of people knew who this person was, but you couldn't say their name on television because they were the whistleblower.
00:15:00.000But basically, what that was was an instance of somebody got a readout of the call, thought it wasn't good, and then accused the president, which ends up resulting in crazed impeachment proceedings.
00:15:14.000So these are the stakes that we're playing with.
00:15:17.000And never forget, you know, six ways to Sunday.
00:15:20.000The Intel agencies have six ways to Sunday of getting you.
00:15:25.000The notorious warning from the good Chuck Schumer, who's now up against it.
00:15:30.000By the way, his approval rating in New York is in the low 30s.
00:16:06.000Without the intelligence community, we wouldn't have discovered it.
00:16:09.000Do you think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community?
00:16:13.000I mean, this form of whether you're a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.
00:16:23.000No video is a better argument for just a systematic purge.
00:16:48.000Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.
00:16:50.000Well, and in this instance, I would doubt that it's the CIA that maybe there's involvement of the CIA, but you look at this.
00:16:58.000This was a, it could have been Ukrainian Intel, could have been MI6, could have been the five eyes.
00:17:06.000You got to ask yourself, who benefits from leaking this call to sabotage a peace plan because they think that the Trump administration is being too pro-Kremlin.
00:18:43.000All right, we have to address something here.
00:18:46.000Yeah, we get this just came in hot in from the very top.
00:18:51.000So we'll get to the Thanksgiving part in a moment, but we're both very big fans of Erica Kirk, and she wanted us to talk about something that has just bubbled up.
00:19:01.000Well, I actually commented on it last night, I have to say.
00:20:34.000So I think what's really sick about this, and I'll tell you, is that these are three deranged, likely post-menopausal women that are flippantly turning a moment of shared grief where JD Vance, the vice president, goes out of his way to honor his friend Charlie by traveling halfway across the country to talk to students at a turning point USA event.
00:21:03.000And he greets Erica, who just had watched this truly emotional video that the team put together, a tribute from Charlie actually to Erica, about Charlie talking about his wife.
00:21:15.000And JD leans in and Erica will tell the story, but it says, he'd be so proud of you.
00:21:22.000And they turned it into some sexualized liberal fever dream where they're projecting their own grossness and their own racism towards Usha onto really good people.
00:22:32.000If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead.
00:22:34.000Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.
00:22:39.000Yeah, and I mean, listen, she says, God bless you.
00:22:42.000And it was actually a really beautiful, touching moment between two friends.
00:22:47.000And just want to reiterate so much gratitude and thanksgiving for Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha, who have stood by Erica in this moment of tremendous grief and sorrow.
00:23:18.000This is what's so gross about this moment is that it's the sneering and the derision and the jeering at the suffering of a widow just because her slain husband happened to be conservative.
00:23:28.000And they think they have the right to completely smear this moment and Erica more directly.
00:24:27.000We talked about this a good amount yesterday.
00:24:29.000We talked about it on Thought Crime as well.
00:24:31.000That Charlie and the early Americans both believed it was especially important to express thanks in adversity, in difficulty.
00:24:39.000And there's no adversity like what we've had in these past three months.
00:24:45.000And there's also a lot of adversity on the country.
00:24:49.000And as you say, the movement fracturing apart.
00:24:51.000There's people who are upset about one thing or another.
00:24:54.000There's almost a bad vibe over the country where people have decided to fixate on things they are unhappy about rather than things they are happy about.
00:25:02.000And this can easily just become a self-perpetuating cycle.
00:25:34.000We've seen one of the things we should never forget to talk about.
00:25:38.000We had a year ago, we had a complete wide open border with the entire third world.
00:25:43.000We had a de facto trader, Alejandro Mayorkas, running the show, letting in gangsters from China, possible terrorists from Central Africa, everyone coming in.
00:26:26.000We have multi-billion dollar ICE hiring expansion to accelerate it in the following year.
00:26:33.000We should be thankful for those things.
00:26:34.000We should be thankful for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and the other ceasefires that have happened for the progress towards a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, the deadliest war in Europe in nearly a century.
00:26:48.000And, you know, this is the conundrum that the administration faces, right?
00:26:53.000Where they get peace in the Middle East, something everybody wanted, but then instantly, you know, you see the chatter.
00:26:59.000And by the way, I've contributed to this, and I make, you know, I make no apologies for it, but, you know, then it's sort of like the domestic front is not getting enough attention, which is true.
00:27:11.000Nevertheless, it's a heck of a job being the president of the United States.
00:27:16.000I want to call out attention to one other thing that we're thankful for.
00:27:19.000We talked about it before the show, Blake.
00:27:21.000And, you know, you can be kind of a hard grader.
00:27:26.000But one of the things that you gave the president and this administration really hard high marks on was some of the changes within the hiring policies of the executive branch.
00:27:44.000There's that sort of fantasy scene because it was written before Trump came back into office where it's describing a possible day one of the administration with this cascade of executive orders.
00:27:55.000And that's pretty much what the admin did in real life.
00:27:58.000Trump said, bring me pieces of paper to sign.
00:28:02.000He repealed orders going all the way back to LBJ that mandated DEI.
00:28:07.000They didn't call it that at the time, but mandated DEI, affirmative action, all of these race-based, sex-based, discrimination-based quotas for how you do things and imposing them on contractors on the private sector.
00:29:28.000And by the way, I'm grateful that Charlie fought for Pete Hegseth as hard as he did because we got rid of all of these woke standards.
00:29:37.000We got rid of the, now we have gender-neutral combat standards, got rid of all the furries and the LGBTQ poem readings and all this stuff out of the mill.
00:29:48.000I'm very grateful for that because my brother serves and he says it's been like night and day.
00:29:52.000If you look, issue after issue, there's so much progress compared to a year ago.
00:30:55.000Charlie was an expert at being grateful with a whole movement full of people that are really good at being not so grateful, maybe being a little negative, kvetching, whatever word you want to put on it.
00:31:08.000Charlie modeled for all of us gratitude and thanksgiving and always looking up to God, which is truly the model from the first Thanksgiving and onward, even in Abraham Lincoln's declaration of the first Thanksgiving.
00:31:22.000It was always looking to God and being grateful to the Almighty for the providential hand that he's had on this country.
00:31:29.000Many of the pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving weren't there, I think, even a year later.
00:31:36.000And our country has a history of fasting and prayer, and especially in the early days of the founders.
00:31:42.000And so we need to model what they handed down to us, be grateful for the many blessings.
00:31:48.000And we're going to continue talking about some of our favorite things that we're thankful for this year because there is much to be grateful for.
00:32:46.000We got, so as of August, at least 21 transgender hospitals or clinics had closed their doors, including the largest one in the country in Los Angeles.
00:33:19.000The scale of the evil, how sinister it was, the scale of the lie they had to tell, that you could just, a boy could just become a girl or the other way around was so unthinkable.
00:33:30.000And the fact that we actually don't talk about it nearly as much anymore, other than the occasional, oh, a guy goes into a girl's locker room or something.
00:33:38.000Things have gotten so drastically better.
00:33:42.000And that's so heavily due to who we have in the White House, who we have making policy in this country, who we have setting the conversation.
00:33:50.000And that is an amazing mercy on our country.
00:34:17.000We dismantled this giant foreign aid apparatus that gave money to a lot of things that once people saw what it was, they did not care for it.
00:34:27.000We have the January 6th pardons, 1,000 people who were, it was the biggest manhunt in American history to find every single person who was remotely adjacent to this event and treating it as the new Pearl Harbor.
00:34:39.000It was this core part of the new left-wing anti-MAGA third foundation of the country myth that we basically need a new constitution to wage war on MAGA.
00:35:01.000We have the person he saw as one of his best friends in politics, one of his closest political analogs in politics who shares his thoughts about nationalism, who shares his thoughts about faith, who shares his thoughts about so many things.
00:35:13.000And that man is the Vice President of the United States.
00:35:16.000Every single day, he's blossoming as a communicator on X. He's hosted this program.